Kolchak is back!

Now available!
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In "Penny Dreadful," Carl Kolchak teams up with private eye Domino Patrick to investigate a series of murders that appear to be copycat crimes based on the 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings. The trail leads to one Penelope Anne Hilligloss, a former member of the Manson Family who now seems to have aligned herself with an even darker power. Kolchak's quest for the truth, and the means to stop "Penny Dreadful," takes him to San Quentin State Prison for a face-to-face meeting with the one man who might have the information he needs: Charles Manson himself.

"The Time Stalker" finds Kolchak in Las Vegas, the city where he once destroyed a vampire named Janos Skorzeny-- or did he? When Skorzeny reappears and begins another murderous rampage, Kolchak must solve the riddle of the vampire's impossible return. Does a mysterious, accidental time-traveler named Zero hold the key? Can Carl put Skorzeny back where he belongs without being arrested by the Vegas P.D. or fired by Tony Vincenzo? With the help of an old, estranged friend from his original Vegas days, and a conspiracy-minded young reporter named Gail Karen, Kolchak once again tackles his first, most terrifying supernatural foe!

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From BLACK CENTIPEDE CONFIDENTIAL

(Our hero, the Black Centipede, has temporarily swapped bodies with bank robber John Dillinger to infiltrate Professor Moriarty's criminal gang. It seems that Johnny has been taking liberties with another member of the crew.)

***

Herbert West switched off the radio set that had, presumably, relayed the proceedings to the Loch Ness Monster. The hovering "Bell Witch" nameplate suddenly dropped, clattering onto the table. Clyde Barrow and Ma Barker cleared away the glasses. Bonnie Parker stood and watched her boyfriend leave the room, then turned to me and gave me a look that I supposed was meant to be enticing. I wondered just what the hell Dillinger and Bonnie had been up to, and hoped I would not be expected to pinch hit.

Not in a million years, I thought. Not to save my very soul from the Devil himself.

I was heading for the door the Professor had just used. And before I could take two steps, I felt a small but very firm hand on my shoulder.

Forcing a lopsided smile-- I didn't have the stomach to go for lecherous-- onto my borrowed face, I turned to confront the ghastly Bonnie Parker.

There is a famous photograph of Bonnie with her foot up on the bumper of a car, a pistol in her right hand and a cigar in her mouth. It had been reproduced countless times in books and magazines, and now the internet. A good one-word description of Bonnie's aspect in that photo would be "haglike," if that's an actual word.

Having viewed her at close quarters, I can say that the famous snapshot is unflattering. Bonnie Parker was not that ugly. In fact, it could be said that she wasn't ugly at all, depending on what you're accustomed to. She was no Faye Dunaway, but very few women are.

Whatever it was about Bonnie that made my skin crawl, it had nothing to do with her appearance, as such. It was something in her eyes and at the corners of her mouth, something darkly sinister that could not be captured on film.

"I need something to eat," I said. I realized that I was foolishly trying to imitate John Dillinger's voice, even though I was speaking through his own vocal apparatus and needn't have bothered.

"Yeah," Bonnie said, smiling in a way that was probably meant to be flirtatious, but put me in mind of a predatory reptile. "The hash houses will still be there later on. I got something that needs a little attention from you."

I saw in this nauseating turn of events an opportunity to have a better look over the premises, if I could keep my lunch down. I wondered what Dillinger had eaten that day. Numbly, like a man being led to a place of execution, I followed Bonnie down a narrow corridor toward the front of the building.

We stepped into the room at the end of the corridor. Judith DeCortez and Zelda Fitzgerald were already in there, sitting at a small table, drinking coffee.

"Hey!" Zelda exclaimed, pointing at me. "That isn't John Dillinger. He looks like Dillinger, but he's not."

"What?" said Bonnie and DeCortez in unison.

"It isn't him," Zelda declared.

"There's one way to find out," said Bonnie Parker, seemingly amused by this. She smiled at me in an exquisitely nauseating manner. "Johnnie's got a cute little mole in a certain spot," she purred. "Let's just have a look, shall we? And maybe I can find something else to do while I'm down there."

She moved closer, and started to reach for my belt buckle.

Mission be damned, I thought, and punched Bonnie Parker in the face. I heard her nose break, which was all well and good, but I'd been trying to do a lot more damage than that. Dillinger was in decent shape, but he wasn't as strong as I was. I had knocked her off her feet, but the damage was minimal.

"Gobdabbit!" she blubbered as she struggled to get up, one hand clapped over her nose, blood pouring out over her fingers. "Ged dad subbababidge!"

Judith DeCortez turned her head to shout down the hallway for help. "Hey, you guys! Get down here! Dillinger isn't Dillinger, he's a spy!" This provided me with an excellent opportunity to take care of some unfinished business. I whipped out a revolver, aimed at the side of her head, and fired.

My intention was to get La DeCortez in the temple, thus closing the books on her for good. But my depth perception was off on account of being in an unfamiliar body, and all I ended up doing was clipping off most of her nose.

"Shit!" she shrieked. "Not again!"

My cover was absolutely blown, but I had no regrets. I'd learned a few things I didn't know before, and had avoided a fate worse than death. Now it was time to get the hell out.

I heard angry shouts coming from the main hall, and Zelda started running in that direction. To conserve ammo, I clubbed Judith over the head with the butt of the gun. I tossed a pair of blackout grenades ahead of me as I dashed up the corridor. They were meant to blind my opponents, which they did. And I was meant to be able to see clearly through the cloud, thanks to my unique body chemistry.

Don't even say it. I know, it was a terrible slip-up. I had, of course, left my unique body chemistry back at the Benway. Dillinger's eyes were of no use. My plan to grab Zelda and take her out of there was no longer viable. I couldn't see a damn thing.

But I heard plenty. Moving quietly down the hallway, I heard Kate Barker raising hell. I followed the trail of obscenities all the way to Ma's fat mouth, and put a fist into it, hard. That didn't quite do it, and she grabbed my wrist and twisted. My pistol slipped out of my hand and I heard it hit the floor and slide away. I gave Ma a blow to the temple that did what I wanted it to do. As she went down, I heard Clyde Barrow-- who must have heard the loud smack and Ma's pitiful groan-- yell, "What the hell's happening?"

I subscribe to the "don't tell it, show it" philosophy, so I aimed a fist in the direction his voice came from and gave him a helping of the stuff I'd served Ma. He said a dirty word and fell to his knees. Groping blindly, I managed to get my hand on his rifle. I relieved him of it and put him the rest of the way down with a kick to the head.

That was five of them down or severely damaged. I didn't think Crippen would be a problem, and I was sure I wouldn't have to worry about the Loch Ness Monster. That left Pretty Boy Floyd, Herbert West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Stagger Lee and the Bell Witch. West and Zelda posed no more of a physical threat than Crippen did. Floyd and Lee needed to be dealt with quickly. As for the Witch, all I could do was hope she'd stay out of it.

"What did she mean Dillinger ain't Dillinger?" Floyd bellowed.

"What the hell you think she meant?" Stagger Lee replied. "If he ain't Dillinger, he's somebody else! Where the hell is all this black smoke coming from?"

The two of them were standing still, in the darkness brought down upon their heads by my blackout grenade, waiting for some kind of cue. I had one for them. I tiptoed silently in Floyd's direction, stopping when I sensed that he was less than a foot in front of me.

"Where you at, man?" Lee shouted. "Tell me where you are, you pansy!"

I turned my head and yelled, "Screw you, nancy boy!" through Dillinger's vocal cords. Then I dropped to the floor.

Stagger Lee's .44 went off. Pretty Boy Floyd let out a scream that dropped off quickly into a wet gurgle. Sounded to me like he'd taken a slug to the gut. Good enough for him.

"Ha!" crowed Stagger Lee. "Got you, you stupid mother..."

"Shut your mouth," I said through clenched teeth, cutting him off in mid-vulgarity with a blast from Clyde Barrow's shotgun. I heard his body hit the floor and he made no further remarks. I got upright and started moving toward the door. I was almost there when I bumped into someone and felt a hand like a wet rag wrap itself around my left wrist.

"I got him, I got him!" Crippen bleated with delight. "Over here!" I figured a shotgun blast at this range would totally obliterate his head, so that's what I gave him.

Resurrect THAT, West!

***
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"THE RETURN OF LITTLE PRECIOUS"

From the MYSTIC FILES of DOCTOR UNKNOWN JUNIOR

As told to Chuck Miller

BOOK THREE in the Moriarty, Lord of the Vampires trilogy
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PREFACE

Perhaps the most famous correctional facility in history, the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has a history that goes back to before the American Civil War. In 1934, it was acquired by the U.S. Department of Justice and turned into a federal penitentiary.

It was shut down in 1963, and eventually became a popular tourist attraction.

A decade ago, the property was taken over once more by the federal government, and Alcatraz was refurbished and specially outfitted to house one single prisoner.

That prisoner was the most dangerous criminal mastermind, terrorist and mass killer the world has ever seen.

A decade ago, after an epic trial, she was sentenced to a total of seven thousand years in prison on multiple counts of murder, assault, theft, kidnapping, mayhem, terrorism and assorted other crimes, ranging from simple felonies to treason, sedition, and crimes against humanity.

She was taken to Alcatraz to begin serving her sentence two weeks after her ninth birthday. She has not aged a day since. Nobody knows why.

So ended the Little Precious Crisis. With Jessie Von Cosel safely locked away, the world buried its dead and tried to forget. The unanswered questions-- and they are legion-- were brushed aside by our leaders, who told us it was time to "look to the future."

But the questions remained, a herd of elephants in the world's living room. Jessie Von Cosel was only half of the entity called Little Precious. The other half was a mysterious robot, a small mechanical man whose origin and ultimate fate were never conclusively determined. Some "experts" maintain that the robot was destroyed during the final battle with Little Precious in the Nevada desert, but there is no proof of this.

Where did the robot come from and what happened to it? How did it enter the state of quantum entanglement with Jessie Von Cosel that gave birth to Little Precious?

Where did Little Precious get the super-weapons with which she nearly wiped out mankind?
How can we be sure Little Precious has really been neutralized forever?

If anyone knows the answers to these troubling questions, they haven't spoken them publicly. Though the government denies it, all information pertaining Little Precious is classified at a level so far above Top Secret that the President himself may not be privy to it. Conspiracy theories abound. The public record has been scrubbed clean of all but the most innocuous and least controversial data.

All of this is troubling enough, but the final unanswered question is the most troubling of all:

Did Little Precious Act Alone?

This reporter believes that she did not.

The Harrison Commission told the public that she did. But the Commission's proceedings were held behind closed doors, and no transcript has ever been released. Who testified before the Commission and to what did they testify?

This reporter is currently pursuing leads that may establish a link between Little Precious and one of the most respected and revered figures of the modern age, a man who, without explanation, disappeared from public life several years ago. There is credible evidence that this man acted in concert with one of the most notorious criminals of all time, and that, together, they at least abetted Little Precious' deadly rampage, and may have facilitated it up to a point. These individuals, working with a shadowy secret society, possibly connected with members of our own government, may have "pulled the plug" on Little Precious once her purpose-- whatever it might have been-- was accomplished. And there is also the clear implication that the aforementioned public figure worked in concert with the Harrison Commission to prevent the truth from becoming known to the public.

This reporter has chosen to go public with the existence of these leads, before they have been confirmed sufficiently for publication, as a means of safeguarding his own life. Copies of all the information and evidence thus far compiled have been placed with several individuals around the world, to be released to the public in the event of this reporter's untimely death.


From "Who Was Little Precious?"
by Garrison Knowles
National Watchdog Magazine

LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION

Well, I finally did that Flatwoods Monster story I've been talking about for a while. You can find it-- along with scores of other tales by some of the best and brightest writers and artists working today-- in LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION, a benefit anthology for Pro Se's Tommy Hancock. There's some great reading in there, and it's for a great cause. Get it on Amazon, print or Kindle NOW:

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